But who is the better of the two to voice the greatest super agent the world has ever seen? Rather than wait to see how Armstrong performs, let’s resolve this now…

The most famous?

Who do you think? (Picture: BBC)

This is a no brainer.

Sir David today is a knight of the realm and star of Only Fools And Horses, A Touch Of Frost and The Darling Buds Of May.

Armstrong is certainly famous as the host of quiz show Pointless, for his comedy work with Ben Miller and many other things but is less famous than Jason.

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Yet, hold on: Danger Mouse started in 1981.

Jason was certainly a well known face and voice in 1981.

But he was probably less well known then than Armstrong is now. (Open All Hours had began before 1981 and Only Fools…started that year, but both were slow to get popular).

Which, given that Danger Mouse is more famous than it was in 1981, seems fair enough.

Too posh?

The new guy (Picture: Getty)

Who Do You Think You Are? revealed Armstrong to be a descendant of John of Gaunt.

Thus, potentially if there was a big disaster, he is so posh that he could one day become king.

Jason may now be the a knight but was the son of a London porter and a charwoman.

Though, to be fair, Danger Mouse does sound quite posh (who else says ‘good grief!’ these days?), so never mind.

It’s not just the mouse!

Remeber this spin-off? (Picture: YouTube)

On the original series, Jason also provided the frequently hilarious voice over narration as well as the voices of a host of other characters including Count Duckula, a character who on Danger Mouse (although not on his less good spin off series) spoke with about three different speech impediments at once.

Will Armstrong be up to this?

To be honest, after a million advertising voice overs and numerous brilliant sketches, the answer must be yes.

But crumbs DM. Who will be Penfold?

Richard Osmond? Ben Miller? No.

The voice for Danger Mouse’s hamster sidekick will be Kevin Eldon.

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And before you shout out who, well, it’s this guy…

It’s the guy in the middle (Picture: BBC1)

Eldon has been in virtually every British comedy show since the early Nineties (including both the chat show and travel tavern series of Alan Partridge, Green Wing, Spaced, Hyperdrive, The IT Crowd and many more).

He is one of the funniest men ever.

So?

The new-look Danger Mouse (Picture: BBC)

Make no mistake. David Jason was and is a brilliant voice artist and went onto do Toad of Toad Hall, Victor and Hugo and The BFG.